Picture this: Townsville, Australia in the year 1971. A screaming infant is born with the name of Julian Assange. This baby is too young to have any friends, or enemies. All the child is born with is his mother and a world ahead of him. Skip ahead sixteen years; little Julian receives his first computer. He discovers the passion he has for technology and the niche he was born into. Within the next four years, Julian has grown into a talented computer hacker. He taps into well-known networks such as Nortel, a telecommunications network based in Canada. Governments have an eye on him, but brush off their concerns when Nortel drops the charges in exchange for a fine. As the governments focus elsewhere, Assange slips off to Sweden and begins a spiral of international controversy. By the year 2007, the website Assange is responsible for officially launches. With its first success of leaked information on Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, Assange knows there is no going back. WikiLeaks has taken hold, and it challenges governments and officials everywhere. The issue of WikiLeaks first made United States
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is also not in a position to repeat the mistakes made by the upheaval that came about from the Pentagon Papers. The last true case that labeled publishers as criminals was that of the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. In brief, this case pursued the publishers of what went on during the period of World War II to the Vietnam War. It highlighted government misconduct and revealed what really went on behind the closed doors of the White House. Infuriating the public and causing the government to bite, the publishers of the articles were slammed with threats of conspiracy, theft, and espionage. However, when the case reached court the judge overruled all of these on grounds of freedom of the press and constitutional rights. All charges were dismissed, and the government was forced to admit they lost the case, and much of their
is also not in a position to repeat the mistakes made by the upheaval that came about from the Pentagon Papers. The last true case that labeled publishers as criminals was that of the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. In brief, this case pursued the publishers of what went on during the period of World War II to the Vietnam War. It highlighted government misconduct and revealed what really went on behind the closed doors of the White House. Infuriating the public and causing the government to bite, the publishers of the articles were slammed with threats of conspiracy, theft, and espionage. However, when the case reached court the judge overruled all of these on grounds of freedom of the press and constitutional rights. All charges were dismissed, and the government was forced to admit they lost the case, and much of their